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Daniel Guggenheim
and took control of ASARCO in 1900. Guggenheim bought copper mines and gold fields in Chile, tin mines in Bolivia, and a rubber plantation and diamond mines in the Congo and Angola. Guggenheim became the nation’s most successful miner.
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Metals
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
Had her mother not gone back to school to earn her college degree while raising two young children, Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) might not have pursued higher education. “It taught me that you can do anything if you really put the effort...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Administration. “The person who can go out and find the diamond gets the highest return.” Once they do, students present their idea—a stock pitch—to an actual hedge fund manager who is invited to each class to offer critiques. “They...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
provides detailed contents to discuss the challenges involved in transforming the sales strategy of a well-established firm. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-408 The De Beers Group: Launching Lightbox...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: New York City
business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. On October 3rd, BEI partnered with Erika Diamond (MBA Class of 2007) to bring together alumni dedicated to making an impact on climate change with their...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
develop and grow. Putting An HBS Education Within Reach Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) gets her work ethic from her mother, who earned a college degree while raising two young children. “She taught me that you can do anything if you really...
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- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
the company. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-055 Diamond Foods, Inc. By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Tim Gray The Diamond Foods, Inc. case describes the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
transacting in what feels awfully like a market. Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market Author:Debora Spar Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 3 (summer 2006): 195-208 Abstract The international View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
benefited from the catch-up following low-income levels caused during war or conflict. Five incidents were credited, or partially credited, to government spending on infrastructure or jobs. In most cases accelerated growth proved a two-edged sword. Angola, for example,...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
its five subsidiaries — the Bulova Watch Company, insurer CNA Financial, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, and the Lorillard Tobacco Company — and from other investments. Since 1997, when the founders passed the baton to the next...
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- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
he recalls. “What I kept thinking about was that I absolutely love flying.” So Hamilton set about figuring out a way to get into the aviation industry and make a living. He renewed his pilot’s license, bought a Diamond Star four-seater...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball simulation game called View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
warrants. This case follows "The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)"; it describes the findings of the panel's TARP Warrants Report and public and congressional reactions. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Arts degree from Yale School of Art in 1991. In Untitled (Three Diamonds), Gatson uses diamond shapes to frame three historical images: a group of women picking cotton, a street view of buildings burning in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1965,...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder (HRPBA ’63) is the essence of grace and civility as she welcomes the Bulletin to her courtroom on a gray, snowy day in early March. With her shoulder-length blonde hair, discreet View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
what visibility they give you, and what challenges they give you. I've had the blessing of great bosses, one after the other. I believe that I owe a great deal of my success to my early bosses." CURRENT READING Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, by...
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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
primary market for collectors is to discover a diamond in the rough," Khaire said. "But as a collector, you have to be much more confident about your ability to judge art if you want to do it as an investment, even in the case...
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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
able to find the diamonds—that's what separates the Warren Buffetts and Seth Klarmans out there. The first person to find the diamond gets the highest rewards." Outsmarting The Public Markets The trick to doing that is the difference...
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- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
called Diamonds and Seven Stars. They have the highest lifetime value to the organization and, in addition, exhibit a much higher willingness than other guests to help Harrah's improve its business. Interestingly, this kind of approach...
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by Sean Silverthorne